45Value of non‑contributory units

45 Value of non‑contributory units

(1) In addition to any pension payable to or in respect of a pensioner to whom, immediately before he ceased to be an employee, a non‑contributory unit was applicable, pension shall be paid at the following rate for that unit: (a) in the case of a male pensioner who retired on or after attaining the age of sixty years—Sixty‑nine dollars thirty‑three cents per annum; (b) in the case of a female pensioner who retired on or after attaining the age of fifty‑five years—Sixty‑nine dollars thirty‑three cents per annum; (c) in the case of a male pensioner who retired on or after attaining the age of fifty‑five years but before attaining the age of sixty years—an amount per annum certified by the Commonwealth Actuary to be the actuarial equivalent of the additional pension which the pensioner would have received under paragraph (a) had he retired on attaining the age of sixty years; (d) in the case of a female pensioner who retired on or after attaining the age of fifty years but before attaining the age of fifty‑five years—an amount per annum certified by the Commonwealth Actuary to be the actuarial equivalent of the additional pension which the contributor would have received under paragraph (b) if she had retired on attaining the age of fifty‑five years; (e) in the case of a pensioner who is in receipt of a pension under regulation 34(1)—Sixty‑nine dollars thirty‑three cents per annum; (f) in the case of a pensioner who is in receipt of a pension under paragraph 36(1)(b)—an amount per annum certified by the Commonwealth Actuary to be the actuarial equivalent of sixteen twenty‑firsts of the pension which the pensioner would have received in respect of that unit had it been a unit of pension: (i) in the case of a non‑contributory unit which became applicable to him by virtue of an election under section 27B of the Superannuation Ordinance or regulation 13—for which the pensioner had been paying contributions as from the date on which he became eligible to contribute for the additional unit of pension in respect of which he made that election; and (ii) in the case of a non‑contributory unit which became applicable to him by virtue of a failure to make an election under subsection 25(5) of the Superannuation Ordinance or subregulation 9(7)—for which he had made the contributions required by subsection 25(6) of that Ordinance or subregulation 9(9); (g) in the case of a widow who was entitled to a pension under regulation 41 on 1 July 1979—$46.45; and (h) in any other case—nil. (2) An additional pension payable under subregulation (1) is payable in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the equivalent pension under Subdivision 1 of this Division.